The statement does not reveal the name of the interim person, but it seeks to explain the process and says the name will be released prior to the meeting. Ramos, who has served two years of a five-year contracted agreement, is set to depart in August.
Tonight's meeting is set for 7 p.m. in the board meeting room, 525 Academy St.
See the statement below:
The Board of Education
has noticed a late breaking public meeting for June 7th at 7:00pm. During
this meeting, we will vote on the approval of an interim Superintendent, whose
name will be made public before the meeting. Unfortunately, due
to approvals that had to be obtained and other issues inherent to the
personnel processes, we needed to notice the meeting (in compliance with the
Open Public Meetings Act) before we could make the full announcement of the
appointment.
The BOE will also meet
in a closed-door Executive Session tomorrow at 6:30 to discuss Personnel
matters, but no action will be taken in Executive Session.
In the statement
released shortly after Dr. Ramos' made public his decision to retire, we
communicated our hope to have an interim in place before the start of the
2017/18 school year to ensure that the opening of schools goes smoothly. Given
the long lead time required to provide notice (often 60-90 days), we had to act
with urgency to find the best possible candidate. In addition, there is a
desire among the BOE to not lose traction on the important work we have started
including on-going implementation of the Access & Equity policy and year
one implementation of the Strategic Plan. We also desire time to develop and engage
in the right process for hiring a permanent Superintendent.
The search for an
interim Superintendent, which is often extremely time sensitive, and the search
for a permanent Superintendent are different process-wise. The process we
conducted this year to find our interim Superintended is the same process we
used in 2014.
Our search for a permanent Superintendent will involve the
full community of teaching staff, students, parents and other community
members. The Board will walk through this process tomorrow night.
We will share
information with the full community about the interim candidate as soon as we
are able. We hope that members of the community will be able to join us
Wednesday, June 7th at 7:00pm despite the late notice.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Baker, Chris
Sabin, Madhu Pai, Annemarie Maini
[Executive Committee of the
Board of Education, South Orange Maplewood School District]
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